macOS
Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install cairolocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install cairoMacPorts ports tree · graphics/cairo/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew
Installer cairo avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de cairo pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
Linux
Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add cairoAlpine Linux edge package indexes · cairo · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install cairoFedora Rawhide package metadata · cairo · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#caironixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ca/cairo/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S cairoArch Linux sync databases · cairo · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install libcairo-gobject2Debian stable package indexes · libcairo-gobject2 · Source: deb.debian.org
openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install cairo-developenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · cairo-devel · Source: download.opensuse.org
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Vector graphics library with cross-device output support
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- cairo-trace
historique
Historique du projet et usages
Cairo is a C 2D graphics library that provides a PostScript/PDF-like drawing API over multiple output backends, including X11, XCB, Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PDF, PostScript, and SVG.
Historique du projet
The official repository README says cairo was originally developed by Carl Worth and Keith Packard. Cairo's early identity was a cross-device vector rendering library: the documentation archive points to a 2003 paper under the earlier Xr name and later cairo presentations from 2005.
The 1.0.0 release announcement on 2005-08-24 marked the stable API/ABI line for 1.x.y releases. At that point xlib, image, and win32 were supported backends, while Glitz, PostScript, PDF, Quartz, and XCB were experimental. Modern project documentation lists a wider set of supported targets, including PDF, PostScript, SVG, Quartz, Win32, Xlib, and XCB.
Cairo is tied closely to pixman for pixel compositing and to desktop text/rendering stacks through fontconfig, FreeType, platform font backends, and toolkit bindings. The project continues to publish releases through cairographics.org, with the official news page listing releases up to 1.18.4 in 2025.
Historique d'adoption
Cairo became infrastructure rather than an end-user app. The official bindings page lists bindings for languages including C++, Haskell, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and others, and notes toolkit integration such as GTK+ 2.8+ support. That binding and toolkit spread made cairo a common dependency in Linux desktop, document, plotting, and image-generation software.
Package-manager adoption is broad: the input facts list Cairo across Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE-style packaging. That breadth reflects cairo's role as a shared graphics primitive for higher-level applications.
Modes d'utilisation
Developers use cairo to draw vector graphics, text, paths, patterns, and transformed/composited images to screen and file surfaces. Common package builds enable image, PNG, PDF, PostScript, SVG, Xlib, XCB, FreeType, fontconfig, Quartz, or Windows backends depending on platform needs.
The Homebrew package exposes cairo-trace, but most users consume cairo as a library dependency through headers, pkg-config metadata, and language bindings.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
Cairo is one of those packages that explains why dependency graphs get deep: a small API surface at the application level hides years of rendering, font, backend, and platform compatibility work. For package nerds it is a foundational desktop graphics dependency, sitting between low-level raster compositing in pixman and higher-level toolkits, browsers, plotting libraries, and document renderers.
Its dual LGPL/MPL licensing, stable 1.x compatibility promise, backend matrix, and language bindings made it unusually reusable across open-source desktop stacks and proprietary-friendly distribution scenarios.
Chronologie
- 2003: Xr-era cross-device vector rendering work precedes the cairo name.
- 2005: cairo 1.0.0 released with a stable 1.x compatibility promise.
- 2008: cairo 1.8.0 release appears in the official news archive.
- 2018: cairo 1.16.0 released.
- 2023: cairo 1.18.0 released.
- 2025: cairo 1.18.4 released.
Related projects
- pixman is the pixel-manipulation library used by cairo for image compositing.
- Language bindings and adjacent projects include pycairo, cairomm, rcairo, cairo-perl, cairo-ocaml, and cairocffi.
- GTK and other GUI toolkits use cairo as a drawing layer; cairo also targets document formats such as PDF, PostScript, and SVG.
Sources
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : vert
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
Classificateur de risque
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Pourquoi
- library-like package without higher-risk signals
Signaux
- metadata:library-like
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- S’installe avec 11 dépendances d’exécution.
- Les métadonnées de compilation listent 3 dépendances de compilation.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
cairo-trace | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire1.18.4
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://cairographics.org/confiance none
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:cairo |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.18.4 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cairo |
| Page d'accueil | https://cairographics.org/ |
| Dépôt | https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo |
| Docs amont | https://www.cairographics.org/documentation |
| Licence | LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-1.1 |
| Archive source | https://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.18.4.tar.xz |
| Dépendances | fontconfig, freetype, gettext, glib, libpng, libx11, libxcb, libxext, libxrender, lzo, pixman |
| Dépendances de compilation | meson, ninja, pkgconf |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | cairo |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
Debian apt95%
libcairo-gobject2 1.18.4-1+b1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
sudo apt install libcairo-gobject2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo-script-interpreter2 1.18.4-1+b1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (script interpreter)
sudo apt install libcairo-script-interpreter2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 6 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo2 1.18.4-1+b1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 12 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo2-dev 1.18.4-1+b1
Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 15 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo2-doc 1.18.4-1
Documentation for the Cairo Multi-platform 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-doc- Section: doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Nix95%
cairo
nix profile install nixpkgs#cairo- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo-gobject2 1.18.0-3build1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
sudo apt install libcairo-gobject2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo-script-interpreter2 1.18.0-3build1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (script interpreter)
sudo apt install libcairo-script-interpreter2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 6 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo2 1.18.0-3build1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 12 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo2-dev 1.18.0-3build1
Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 15 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo2-doc 1.18.0-3build1
Documentation for the Cairo Multi-platform 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-doc- Section: libs
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
apk95%
cairo 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library
sudo apk add cairo- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
apk95%
cairo-dbg 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (debug symbols)
sudo apk add cairo-dbg- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
apk95%
cairo-dev 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (development files)
sudo apk add cairo-dev- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
apk95%
cairo-doc 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (documentation)
sudo apk add cairo-doc- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
apk95%
cairo-gobject 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (gobject bindings)
sudo apk add cairo-gobject- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Cairo
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